A PAEDOPHILE already serving a prison sentence for offences against children has been jailed for eight years for having sex with a young girl.

A PAEDOPHILE already serving a prison sentence for offences against children has been jailed for eight years for having sex with a young girl.

Andrew Lynock had pleaded guilty to five charges of having unlawful sex with the girl on various occasions in the late 1990s, beginning when she was 10.

Lynock, aged 45, previously of Barrows Lane, Sheldon, also admitted a further charge of unlawful sex with the same girl after meeting her again when she was 14.

Jason Aris, prosecuting, said that in the late 90s the girl sometimes visited the house where Lynock lived with his partner and her children, whom the girl knew.

His pattern of sexual abuse started with tickling her stomach when he was alone with her. But it escalated, leading to a string of further offences against the girl, Warwick Crown Court heard.

Lynock is already serving an eight-year sentence imposed in March 2005 for offences of rape and indecent assault against children in 2004.

Lynock had originally denied those charges and in December 2004, while awaiting trial but just before a hearing at which he was expected to change his plea, was admitted to hospital after taking a suspected drug overdose.

The Judge told Lynock: "I can only express my revulsion at the way you treated the little girl. You treated her abominably. I hope she will not be damaged for the rest of her life by what happened, but no-one will know that for many years."